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An image of missing Colorado woman Kelsey Berreth is seen at left at the Woodland Park Police Station. Her fiance, Patrick Frazee (right), was arrested on a murder charge Friday, Dec. 21, 2018.

Police in Colorado said Friday that a woman missing since Thanksgiving Day was likely killed at her home, and they have arrested her fiance and charged him with murder.

Woodland Park police Chief Miles de Young would not say whether Berreth's body had been found or what led to the charges of murder and solicitation to commit murder against Patrick Frazee, allegedly the last person to see 29-year-old Kelsey Berreth. He was arrested at his home and cattle ranch in the central Colorado community of Florissant on Friday morning, Teller County sheriff's Cmdr. Greg Couch said.

"As you can tell from the arrest, sadly, we do not believe that Kelsey is still alive," De Young said.

Authorities also won't say who else might be arrested, or give more details on the solicitation to murder charge, or how they believe Berreth was killed.

Colorado Police arrested the fiance of a missing Colorado woman on charges of murder and solicitation of murder Friday. Patrick Frazee was arrested at his 35-acre home Friday morning after his fiancee, Kelsey Berreth, had been missing since Thanksgiving. The last image of Kelsey Berreth was from a surveillance video at a grocery store Thanksgiving Day.

(Published Friday, Dec. 21, 2018)

Frazee appeared by teleconference at a Teller County District Court hearing Friday. He's being held without bond with his next court appearance scheduled for Dec. 31.

Berreth was last seen in a grocery store near her home in Woodland Park, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from Florissant. Both towns are high country alpine communities near Pikes Peak and west of Colorado Springs.

Surveillance video showed her entering the store on Thanksgiving Day with what appears to be the couple's 1-year-old daughter in a baby carrier. Frazee had told police that the couple met sometime that afternoon so he could pick up the child. They did not live together, and the girl was staying with her father.

Friday's arrest came after police urged Frazee to speak directly with investigators and after a search of his high country ranch property as well as Berreth's own townhome in Woodland Park. Officials declined to say what they found.

Miles De Young, police chief of Woodland Park, said Frazee had communicated with police through his attorney but hadn't spoken with them directly.

Police said the only signs of Berreth were some text messages from her cellphone. Location data later suggested that by Nov. 25 the phone was in Idaho, 800 miles (1,290 kilometers) from Berreth's home.

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Public records show that property associated with Frazee's name in Florissant covers 35 acres.

Frazee's attorney, Jeremy Loew, has said his client was cooperating with the investigation.

Loew previously said his client provided police with DNA samples and access to his cellphone. Frazee told police that Berreth last texted him on Nov. 25, the Sunday after Thanksgiving.